[vtkusers] vtkDecimatePro question

[Brian Webb]

Alex,

That worked great!  Thanks!

Brian


> Hello
>
> Before using vtkDecimatePro you can pass your mesh through
> vtkCleanPolyData with a tolerance of 0.0.
> Perhaps this can solve your problem but I'm not sure.
>
> Bye,
>  Alex
>
> Brian Webb schrieb:
>>
>> I'm trying to use vtkDecimatePro to decimate a model, and it appears
>> to be just removing facets and leaving holes in the model.  According
>> to the documentation it appears that calling PreserveTopologyOn should
>> prevent this from happening.  This works with a standard (fran) model,
>> but it doesn't on my models.
>>
>> I'm thinking that there's something inconsistent in my models (the
>> normals are inconsistent, or the polygons are not ordered correctly),
>> but I can't figure out a way to correct it.  I tried
>> vtkPolyDataNormals, but that didn't work.